My Favorite Quotations

“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” — Lewis Carroll

"Championships are won in the off-season." - Charles Daugherty quoting a t-shirt

"The [obvious] issue is never the [real] issue. - Kim Pagel
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"Be slow to attribute to malice or guile, that which can be explained by ignorance, incompetence, or muddling through." - My modification of Hanlon's Razor, stolen from Heinlein's Razor, stolen from Napoleon.

"If you are going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk" -Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

Anything by Lazarus Long. e.g "Never try to teach a pig to sing- it wastes your time and annoys the pig." and "A motion to adjourn is always in order."

"The product is Service. You only sell hardware to provide installed base." - Probably from Barb Gatti

"My ancestors did not fight and claw their way to the top of the food chain so I could eat tofu and bean sprouts." - motto of PETA [People Eating Tasty Animals]

"Eighty percent of success is showing up" - Woody Allen

"If you can't fix it, then feature it!" - Gnarly old Collins Program Manager [probably Jim Lockwood]

"It's not really flying unless you are upside-down at least once." - Me

"The worst case is [simultaneously] being out of altitude, airspeed, and ideas...unless you add inverted." - Old pilot's aphorism

"The last red pen always wins." - Me

"In the long run, we are all dead." - JM Keynes

"The markets can be irrational longer than you can be solvent." - JM Keynes

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
--Dilbert

"Don't ask the question if you cannot stand the answer." -unknown

"I never saw an emergency that was improved by screaming" - an ER doctor

"Maintain control, analyze the situation, take the proper action" - Air Force basic flight manual

"When playing poker, if you cannot tell who the mark is...it's you." - Bob Sevier

"You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other Allied Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her Armed Forces." - Roosevelt to Eisenhower. An example of a proper command from political authority to the military. Then get out of the way.

Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment. - Will Rogers

Government spending does not have a multiplier effect on the economy. It is at best neutral. What creates growth is private investment, increases in productivity, and increases in population. That's it. Tax increases have a negative multiplier.
- John Mauldin